Want to play an Xbox 360? Better get to Wal-Mart

Confirmed! The first sighting of Microsoft's new gaming console is out in the …

Want to know if you can play the Xbox 360 now? So do the good folks at Joystiq, who got tipped off by a reader that you could go into your local Wal-Mart and play on the console today.

We called that Wal-Mart to confirm and were told by the person working in electronics that this is in fact true. According to him, “Wal-Marts are going to be the first stores to have Xbox 360s.” He said that a Microsoft representative came by and just decided to set up an Xbox 360 in Sun Prairie (Wisconsin).

There's a handy list of stores where readers have confirmed the presence of an Xbox 360, but with no Wal-Mart stores within an hour's drive of either of your OT writers, we're both very sad pandas. Still, the chance to get up close and personal with the first of the next-gen consoles might just be enough to get me to walk into Wallyworld. If any of the stores on the list are near you and you actually go in to play on it, want to e-mail us with your first impression? Bonus points for blurry cameraphone pictures.